New Reach consortium

10:06 AM MST | March 1, 2013

Six sodium chlorate manufacturers have established a consortium to seek authorization under Europe’s Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals (Reach) regulation for the use of sodium dichromate as a processing aid in the sodium chlorate process. The founding members of the consortium are AkzoNobel, Arkema, Ercros (Barcelona), Electroquímica de Hernani (Donostia, Spain), Kemira, and Solvay. Interested entities may apply to join the consortium by June, says ReachCentrum, a unit of Cefic. Sodium dichromate will soon be...